Widge Goes Off #4: Eyes and the Apocalypse

By Widge - posted 02.22.11 @ 5:46 pm

So I thought about something while putting in my contacts the other day. Somebody on the YouTube comments asked what I think about when I'm brushing my teeth. It's obvious: dairy futures. Enjoy.

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Widgett Walls is Need Coffee's Chief Cook and Bottle Washer. He is the author of the novel Mystics on the Road to Vanishing Point, and two collections of short stories, Magnificent Desolation and Something Else: The Complete First Season. He is also co-author of the children's book There's a Zombie in My Treehouse! All of those books are available in paperback or for the Kindle from Amazon. He is also the narrator and publisher of the first unabridged recording of Seneca's letters, available here. He is active on both Twitter and Facebook. (If you befriend him on Facebook, do say you came via Need Coffee.) He lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia. He hardly ever sleeps.

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All your apocalyptic preparation and training, only to be thwarted by eyesight.

Comment by Isaac — February 22, 2011 @ 6:21 pm

I've thought of this many, many times. I save all my old glasses. As time goes on, I'll have some epic post-apocalyptic headaches from the older ones, but I'll be able to see better than without them.

Plus you can loot glasses from the corpses. Some of them will have vision similar enough to yours. I guarantee it.

And our pre-tech ancestors, I suspect, didn't live long enough for their eyesight to get as bad as ours does.

Comment by mordantkitten — February 22, 2011 @ 10:01 pm

I love the fact you have a plan. This gladdens my heart.

Comment by Widge — February 22, 2011 @ 10:05 pm

It's worth noting that Victim Zero of the Zombie Apocalypse - John, in "Night of the Living Dead" (1968) - was in fact bespectacled, and in fact loses them in his melee with the first zombie seen. Certainly an early object lesson.

Comment by Pope Heironymus — February 23, 2011 @ 12:17 am

After watching this, I checked out a video of a LASIK surgery. Un Chien Andalou isn't far off.

Yeah, the zombies will just have to eat me, too.

I could try to tame them, like the bespectacled Dr. Logan in Day of the Dead...

Comment by Cody — February 23, 2011 @ 3:57 am

@Cody: I thought about Dr. Logan but I think his methods were, in a word, "unsustainable."

@H: Yes, exactly.

Comment by Widge — February 23, 2011 @ 9:07 pm

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